Biden administration nears completion of second cybersecurity executive order with plethora of agenda items

The White House is nearing completion of a draft second executive order on cybersecurity that would direct federal agencies on a broad set of priorities, including AI-driven cyber defense pilots, secure software development and public attestations, cloud and supply chain security updates under FedRAMP, identity and access modernization, software bills of materials, open-source security, and post-quantum cryptography; the draft is reported to be close to final but faces questions about implementation, funding, and political timing.